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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research

Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - 2008

The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...

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The role of patents and secrecy for intellectual property protection: theory and evidence

Mosel, Malte - 2012

results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …

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Innovationskooperationen und Wissenstransfer von Unternehmen im Raum Jena

Kaps, Katharina; Pfeil, Silko; Sauer, Thomas; Stoetzer, … - 2011

The research project KompNet 2011 - Factors determining the success of regional innovation networks, funded by the … partners in innovation projects, nevertheless in-house development is the most important form of creating innovative products … intensity, are very important for the innovation success. Tacit and codified transfer channels are equally important for the …

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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

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Impact of SME policies on innovation: The Turkish case

Bascavusoglu-Moreau, Elif - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of innovative capabilities in Turkish SMEs, with a particular emphasis on the impact of recent changes in science and technology policy. Two different analyses are conducted in order to evaluate both the decision to innovate and the...

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Innovation, credit constraints, and trade credit: Evidence from a cross-country study

Bönte, Werner; Nielen, Sebastian - 2010

This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …

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Why do borrowers pledge collateral? New empirical evidence on the role of asymmetric information

Berger, Allen N.; Espinosa-Vega, Marco A.; Frame, W. Scott - 2007

An important theoretical literature motivates collateral as a mechanism that mitigates adverse selection, credit rationing, and other inefficiencies that arise when borrowers hold ex ante private information. There is no clear empirical evidence regarding the central implication of this...

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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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Business Survival and Success of Young Small Business Owners

van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

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Entrepreneurship and Cities: Evidence from the Post-communist World

Belitski, Maksim; Korosteleva, Julia - 2011

This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States during 1995-2008, utilising a unique dataset and employing the System Generalised Method of Moments technique. Our findings suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship,...

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